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Sum of Broken rooms
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Publisher: Belgian Rabbit Publishing
Published: May 19 2026
Pages: 54
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.11 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
London, 1554. Some doors lock from the outside. Others lock from within.
Before the scandal. Before Bedlam's gates swallowed men whole. Before names like Stanley became a sentence-there was a quieter kind of unraveling, one that happened in plain sight.
In a city that rewards performance and punishes difference, Astrolabe moves through London with a mind tuned to patterns others never notice-tones, timings, contradictions, the invisible rules people insist are obvious. What the world calls odd, Astrolabe has learned to call survival. Precision is safer than guesswork. Silence is safer than honesty. Observation is safer than trust.
But when a seemingly small disturbance exposes a larger threat-whispers of power, a household secret, a wrong that won't stay buried-Astrolabe is drawn into a web of suspicion that reaches beyond one broken room and into the machinery of Tudor London itself. The closer Astrolabe comes to the truth, the more the city closes ranks. And the more dangerous it becomes to be the one person who can't stop noticing what doesn't fit.
The Sum of Broken Rooms is a dark, atmospheric prequel to The Bedlam Series-a short historical tale of perception, isolation, and the cost of seeing too clearly in a world determined not to look.
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